North Carolina, some waterfalls near me

I'm very fortunate to live in Western North Carolina. I can drive an hour or so to see lots of waterfalls. DuPont Forest is south of me...a N.C. Recreational Forest which means someone keeps the paths maintained, the restrooms clean (if they are open) and the trash receptacles emptied.

Actually, I've not hiked much so have not seen these falls posted above. But I have visited one nearby which looks a lot like the one Sepia Saturday shared this week.

It should be noted that these are natural falls, not those coming over a dam built by men.

Hooker Falls with a kayaker going over it, as flowing of The Little River.

Another view of Hooker Falls

Drive under "Bridal Falls" near Highlands, NC
There are several falls by this name.

Not far from Bridal Falls is "Dry Falls...which I posted about HERE. It's one you can walk under, but not necessarily stay dry.

North of my home is the upper falls at Linnville Falls.

And south of Black Mountain is Looking Glass Falls.

There are certainly more falls to explore.

On a good day, drive in the mountains

This was a spur of the moment day trip...just go to lunch up in the mountains with a friend!

 

The roadside waterfall called to us. Looking Glass Falls is over there, and there are all those steps we could go down, and back up again. Nah, not this time!

 I'm fine with the zoom on the phone capturing this much.  After all, it's only to share on a blog. Not going to put it in any photo contest!

Looking Glass Falls in the fall

Below the falls, the creek that becomes Davidson creek, I wonder if it's called that all the way up the mountain?

Stairs wend down to the observation area at the foot of the falls.  Going down is realtively easy.  You know the rest.

There are nice climbing rocks at the bottom, next to the shallow pool, so I ventured out as far as I could with dry boots.  Spray was sometimes blowing my way even then.  I found it interesting that my skill of rock hopping returned to me easily and coming back up was a breeze, because I could tell the rocks weren't really slippery from that angle.  Going down the rocks I was much more careful than on the stairs.

Sorry I called them Window Pane Falls the other day...I've corrected my mistake.  I've been getting those names confused ever since I first visited these falls in 2005 (I think).

Hooker Falls

Hooker Falls in January 2011.



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Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.  Dr. Albert Schweitzer

 

Looking Glass Falls